Anonymous, 28 Feb 2015Wow bad review...
No comparison against Huawei Ascend Mate 7.Did you read the review at all? Or you've checked the last page, saw your phone isn't there and went straight to post a non-sense comment here?

The Mate7 is €100 more expensive, with bigger screen and body and thus it isn't a competitor to the Xiaomi Mi Note. That's why it is missing in the final words.

AnonD-265341, 28 Feb 2015I don't understand what the fuss is all about. This is no competition to the most know compani... moreTrue, battery life is not very good, but it can be improved with an update. MIUI gets weekly updates.

It's highly priced because the Mi Note is not made cheap. Just like Apple. You can't expect S801 with premium material and design to cost around the $300 price range. Well, to this day, Snapdragon 801 still performs decently, unless a new chipset was made to eliminate that just like how S800 eliminates S4 Pro.

Also Xiaomi phones and gorilla glass have always been a huge controversy.

This phone is no different; nothing on Xiaomi's or Corning's website that this phone has Gorilla Glass but I see Xiaomishop planted the seed and wrote Gorilla Glass 3 (hey, if it sells more phones) so now this unsubstantiated spec gets picked up by GSMArena and the cycle continues.

Unless you absolutely need the dual sim, you can pretty much get a Note 3 for the price of this. The advantage this has is in its home market it is compatible with China Mobile's 4g networks where as an international Note 3 would be stuck on 2g but this issue doesn't apply to 99.9% of the readers here.

Worthless phone.. A phone with such hopeless batterylife should not be allowed to be released to public.

Display brightness @ 50% - 130 cd/m2
Even with such low brightness, browsing is a pathetic 6:19, and video playback is lousy 6:32.

Compare this against Note 4. Much more powerful SOC, more pixels, display brightness @ 50% - 291 cd/m2
Even with such high brightness, browsing is 11 hrs, video is 17:52. In reality Note 4 does 4 times more battery than this POS if you consider same brightness levels.